Delivery-body



C. B. PARSONS.

DELIVERY BODY. APPLICATION FILED lULY25,19l9.

1,359,734. Patented Nov. 23,1920.

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CARL 13. reasons, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN, essrenon, To PARSONSMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, :A CORPORATIONOEMICI-IIGANQ DELIVERY-BODY.

Application filed July 25, 19.19.

. f whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL B. PARsoNs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Delivery-Bodies, ofwhich the following is a Specification.

This invention relates to delivery body doors and has for its object adelivery body door and hinge which permits the use of one or more doorsinside the rear posts of the body but which can swing aroundthroughthree-quarters of a turn into a position parallel to the side of thebody. It is very desirable to have the doors of a de livery wagon swingclear around against the side of the body instead of through half a turnat a position at right angles to the body where they are very liable tobe in the way of traffic. It is also desirable to have the door insideof the rear posts of the body as ii. makes a very much neater lookingappearance.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a horizontal cross section of the rear of a delivery bodyand showing how.

the doors are hung.

Fig. 2 is a perspective of the hinge.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective of the hinge showing how the wingsare reinforced. Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary View of the rear postand door of the delivery the door, to turn only through half a turn sothat when it is at its limit of openlng it is projecting perpendicularlyto the sides of the body. In this position, if it is struck from therear by traflic, it is bound to tear the door off from the hinges. Withmy special form of hinge the door is capable of swinging clear aroundparallel with the sides of the body.

In the drawings a designates the side of.

tinuation of the anchor plate perpendicu-.-

larly thereto adapted to connect with the Specification of LettersPatent.

Serial No. 313,276.

Patented Nov. 23, 1920 knuckle and which will be designated thestationary web. f designates the L-shaped wing adapted to be screwed tothe door 0.

This is provided with a narrow extension 9 which connects the wing withthe knuckle and which will be designated the swinging web. Although thisis an integral part of the wing f it is given a separate designationbecause it does not lie directly up against the door to which the wingis at- 1 tached but serves to connect the wing proper with a remotelyplaced knuckle i. The knuckle is formed in the usual way by notching androlling up the ends of the two webs but of relatively light metal andstill have strength enough to be durable.

Byplacing the anchor plate on theinside of the door post a relativelylong anchor plate can be utilized and yet be concealed. The anchor platecan be made almost as long as desired, thereby effecting a much moresecure support. a

The dishing of the swinging web '9 and the wing f-is roughly in the formof a Y but it enables this corrugating of the metal to not onlystrengthen the connecting web but those portions of the wingwhich areadjacent and which bear the major part of the load. The'dishing of theanchor C011".

necting web 6 is, slightly smaller than the dishing of the swinging web9, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the two corrugated parts can nest onewithin the other.

What Iclaim isz The combination of a delivery body pro vided with reardoor posts, one or more doors for closing the opening formed by the reardoor posts, the said door or. doors set inside of the rear door postsand adapted to swing around to a position parallel with the side of thebody, and supports for said door or doors comprising hinges, eachofwhich is provided with a stationary web running acrossthe rear face ofthe door post and an 1 1 anchor plate substantially perpendicularlyarranged with respect to the stationary web and which is secured to theinside of the door post, a knuckle securedto the station- 7 ary webprojecting beyond the side of the door post at the outside corner, awing fastened to the rear face of the door, and a continuation of thewing beyond the edge of the door which forms a Web running across therear face of the door post when the door 10 CARL B. PARSONS.

